Life List.

100 things to do before I die
- Live in Europe
- Learn to properly fishtail french braid my daughter’s hair
Ride my horse bareback- Swim in bio-luminescence
- Learn to surf. On a long board October 2010 Huntington Beach, California
Visit Hawaii. Stay in a hotel close enough to the ocean to hear the waves crash.- Make crescent dinner rolls that rival those of my mother
- Have a dress custom made for me by a designer I love
- Ride a bike across the Golden Gate Bridge
- Publish articles for well known magazines
- Write a book. A good one.
- See aurora borealis from Alaska
- Attend a World Cup soccer game
- Go to fashion week. As a journalist/writer.
- Spend time in Greece
- Collect sea glass from 50 beaches
- Attend the Tomatina food fight in Spain
Visit my husband’s childhood home in Warsaw, PolandMay 2011- Finish a sprint triathlon
- Own a sports car
Take my kids to Poland while their Babcia + Dziadek are still aliveMay 2011- Stay on a Caribbean island with my family
Swim in the Mediterranean sea- Commission a painting of my children from an artist I love
Own an original painting by Brian Kershisnik- Get a tattoo {sorry mom!}
- Name an O.P.I. nail polish color
- Have sex with my husband on a beach
- Be in better shape at 40 than I am at 32
- See both of my children married
Take a sleeper train across EuropeBecome fluent in Spanish. Again.- Trace my husbands’ Eastern European genealogy
- Visit my grandmother’s childhood town in Iowa
Ride a street car in San FranciscoAttend an honest-to-goodness movie premiereCannes Film Festival May 2013Roam around Paris for a few daysJune 2013Earn enough money to sustain my family on my own- Read every book in my home library
- Go behind-the-scenes at the Monterey Bay Aquarium July 2009
Have one massage a month for an entire year- Visit every one of the bridges my grandfather designed (working on it)
- Stay in Martha’s Vineyard
Surf in Costa Rica- Visit Cape Cod
Own a pair of obscenely expensive shoes- Drive a race car around a track, un-throttled
- Attend a Christmas Mass in Poland
Get one massage a month for an entire year- Travel to Australia
- Meet David Sedaris
- Take a first class sleeper train across Europe. One of the fancy ones with a shower.
- Go on a cruise
Sleep in a hut- Fly Virgin Atlantic and sleep in a horizontal bed while flying
- Become a talented photographer
Spend an entire day at a spa, get every treatment availableOctober 2010Eat lunch at a European cafeMay 2011- Be an instrument in raising awareness of, and finding a cure for Lupus
- Renovate my kitchen
- Travel to every state in America
- See the ruins in Guatemala
Visit Spain, practice my Spanish while I’m thereJune 2013Learn to hang glideOuter Banks, North Carolina, October 2013- Visit the rain-forest in Belize
- See an elephant in the wilds of Africa
- Graduate from college April 2004
- Wear a ball gown (to an event of importance) Cannes Film Festival May 2013
- Drive down PCH with my husband and kids
- Sleep in a castle
- Knit a sweater
Own a stock portfolio- Buy a house August 2000
Learn to hip hop dance. Properly. Not going to happen. Went to two Zumba classes + realized it’s not happening- Spend a day in a fashion house
- Own a horse December 2009
- Meet the Dixie Chicks
- Sleep on a warm beach
- Get 50 stamps on my passport (working on it)
- Hear Cat Stevens perform live
- Try Eastern medicine: acupuncture, etc.
- Take an art class
- Sleep naked
- Marry my soul mate May 1998
- Overcome my fear of open water {see #5}
Visit the LouvreUnderstand math- Become a mother November 1999
- Go running in Central Park
- Follow a sewing pattern all the way through, make something I’d actually deem wearable
- Go scuba diving in warm ocean water
- Visit New England in the fall
- Learn to play the piano
- Dance at a European discotheque
- Take professional makeup lessons at a M.A.C. store
- Run through the alps
- Canoe down the Amazon river
Have a conversation with Meg Cabot- Teach my children how to serve
- Visit Stonehenge
- See a flying fish {Catalina Island Summer 2009}
- Feed a whole chicken to an alligator
- Take a boat tour of Venice, Italy
- Have an enormous, blow-out 40th birthday party
- Scuba dive to the ruins of a sunken ship
- Dye my hair Blond The year 2009
- Go whale watching in a kayak
- R.V. across the United States with my kids
Hike through a jungle
Do you have a Life List? I’m not kidding, this one took me five days to come up with. I didn’t take it lightly, I really pondered things I want to get accomplished in this life of mine. There’s really something to writing something down, committing it to memory and promising yourself you’ll get it done. 100 things really affords you the indulgence of dreaming big.
Do it, do it now.
Hi Allison,
Your list is inspiring and precious. I share many of your desires in common. Thanks for the fun reading on your blog. You really seem like someone I would enjoy a cup of coffee with!
Sincerely,
Suzy C.
I noticed that you said you had a grandmother who was born in Iowa? It just so happens that I am from Fairfield, Iowa! Small world..
I love all of these ideas! What a beautiful and inspiring list. I’m adding these to my own bucketlist.
-Amanda
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Thanks for giving information, really very nice, your list is inspiring and precious.
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your list is inspiring. I will also list out my wishes and try to complete them.